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Trump Official Brought Hate Connections to the White House

President Trump’s Deputy Communications Director Julia Hahn had connections to the white nationalist movement around the time she joined the White House as an aide, based upon hundreds of private correspondences that were leaked to Hatewatch by a former colleague and friend. The leaked emails show Hahn is connected to Peter Brimelow, whom she refers to at one point casually by his first name. Brimelow founded the white nationalist hate group VDARE. VDARE traffics in the “white genocide” conspiracy theory, which suggests that white people are being systemically replaced in Western nations by non-white people. VDARE has published commentary by one of the principal organizers of the deadly white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and publicly defended that event on its third anniversary this August. Brimelow’s group has also published apologia regarding the ideologies espoused by far-right mass murderers in El Paso, Texas, and Christchurch, New Zealand. Additionally, the emails suggest that before Hahn joined the right-wing website Breitbart News as an editor, she attended a writer’s workshop with the white nationalist publishing house The Social Contract Press. Her story pitches to Breitbart News show influence of the type of white nationalist worldview espoused by VDARE and The Social Contract Press. For example, in one July 2016 pitch, Hahn wrote, “How many whites have been killed by blacks since Obama has been in office?” – apparently seeking to draw a parallel between the election of America’s first Black president and Black people murdering whites. Hahn also hyped the doomed congressional candidacy of Wisconsin’s Paul Nehlen in her writing for Breitbart News across at least 36 posts. Nehlen eventually used the fans he gained from his Breitbart News attention and from his failed stab at politics to become a notorious cheerleader for white supremacist terrorism, calling mass murderers such as Anders Breivik, Dylann Roof and Brenton Tarrant “saints.” Although Nehlen’s rhetoric grew increasingly hateful after losing two primary races against former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, he was already a far-right extremist at the time Hahn repeatedly promoted his candidacy. Hahn promoted Nehlen at least four times in Breitbart News after he expressed an openness to the idea of physically removing every Muslim citizen from America.
Former Breitbart News editor Katie McHugh leaked over 600 of Hahn’s private emails to Hatewatch. McHugh delivered to Hatewatch emails taken from Hahn’s personal Gmail and her Breitbart News work email. She also leaked scores of text messages and Google Chat transcripts. McHugh, who once immersed herself in the anti-immigrant movement and rubbed shoulders with open white nationalists, has since renounced far-right extremism and racism. McHugh leaked to Hatewatch over 900 previously private emails authored by White House adviser Stephen Miller in 2019. McHugh told Hatewatch that Hahn, her former friend and colleague, maintained a close relationship with Miller during Trump’s first campaign for president. Hahn pushed for favorable coverage of Miller, according to the emails. In February 2017, after Hahn had joined the White House as an aide to President Trump, the emails show she urged McHugh to write a favorable story about Miller as a way of blunting criticism of him published in The New York Times. Hahn is 29 years old and comes from considerable wealth. Her grandfather, Harold Honickman, presides over the Honickman Group, a large soda and beer bottling conglomerate. Her role in the Trump administration is typically handled behind the scenes, and she rarely appears on camera. The White House named Hahn as the replacement for former deputy communications director Adam Kennedy in March, around the time that the COVID-19 pandemic became an issue of global importance. In August, the Times depicted Hahn as being the person who sometimes gathers talking points for White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.

via splcenter: Trump Official Brought Hate Connections to the White House

siehe dazu auch: Birth of a Radical (2017). White Fear in the White House: Young Bannon Disciple Julia Hahn Is a Case Study in Extremism. (…) The Breitbart reporter was Julia Hahn, a Bannon protégé who followed him into the White House as a special assistant to President Trump. (…) At a glance, Hahn is an outlier among outliers. She was raised in Beverly Hills, attended a private high school, and the only wisp of political activity in her adolescence was a decidedly liberal, pro-immigration gesture: She raised money for a group that brought foreign orphans to the United States. She majored in philosophy at the University of Chicago, and the sole public trace of her time there is a video of a panel discussion in which she discussed Michel Foucault’s idea that psychoanalysis stigmatizes human sexuality. Not long after she was appointed to the White House at the age of just 25, one of her college friends reacted by writing on Facebook, “It’s weird because she was always very nice and it’s disappointing when seemingly nice people turn out to be Nazis/Nazi-adjacent.” Another friend asked, “WTF happened???”

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#Corona-#Protestler attackieren #Polizei in #Berlin – #covidioten #verantwortungslos #superspreader

In Berlin hat bei Protesten gegen die Corona-Maßnahmen am 25.10.2020 ein Großteil der rund 2000 Teilnehmenden gegen die Auflagen verstoßen. Vereinzelt durchbrachen Demonstrierende Polizeiabsperrungen und widersetzten sich Anweisungen der Polizei. Bereits mittags hatten sich am Alexanderplatz Menschen versammelt und zogen nahezu unbegleitet durch die Polizei Richtung Friedrichshain. Auf der Karl-Marx-Allee wurde eine Kundgebung vorzeitig abgebrochen, da die Maskenpflicht und das Abstandsgebot nicht eingehalten wurde.

via democ: Corona-Protestler attackieren Polizei in Berlin

siehe auch: ???? ?????, ???? ??????? – ???????? ??????-???????:????? ????????????? ?? ?????? ?? ??.??.???? ????? ??? ????????????????????? ????. Am Sonntag, den 25. Oktober, sollte eigentlich der World Health Summit in der Berliner Veranstaltungslocation „Kosmos“, einem ehemaligen Kino im Berliner Bezirk Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, beginnen. Aufgrund der nach wie vor grassierenden Corona-Pandemie, die im Moment auch in Deutschland wieder zu steigenden Zahlen von Infizierten führt, findet der dreitägige Gesundheitsgipfel jetzt allerdings nur digital statt. Das hielt mehr als 2.000 Corona-Leugner:innen um die „Querdenken“-Bewegung jedoch nicht davon ab, für diesen Tag nach Berlin zu einer Demonstration dagegen zu mobilisieren. Beginnen sollte der Aufmarsch um 12 Uhr auf dem Alexanderplatz. Aufgerufen hatte ein Bündnis rund um die Initiative „Querdenken”. Erschienen waren mehrere tausend Menschen, jedoch kam es bereits gleich zu Beginn zu Komplikationen: Wegen fehlender Abstände und der Weigerung eines Großteils der Teilnehmenden einen Mund-Nasen-Schutz zu tragen, wollte die Berliner Polizei den Aufzug nicht loslaufen lassen. Es kam dabei zu ersten Auseinandersetzungen mit Polizist:innen und zu vereinzelten Festnahmen. Dabei herrschte eine recht chaotische Stimmung. Die Polizei schien bereits hier überfordert, was mitunter an der geringen Zahl der eingesetzten Beamt:innen gelegen haben könnte. Ein Sprecher der Polizei gab im Verlauf des Tages an, dass lediglich 600 Kräfte eingesetzt wurden.
Der Anmelder der Versammlung löste den Aufmarsch gegen 13 Uhr auf und rief dazu auf, zum Veranstaltungsort Kosmos in der Karl-Marx-Allee zu ziehen. Gleich neben dem Alexanderplatz an der Otto-Braun-Straße versammelten sich zur gleichen Zeit etwa 40 Menschen bei einer Kundgebung von „Querdenken 030“. Warum sich die Berliner „Querdenker“ vom Rest der Versammlungen abspalteten, war nicht ersichtlich. Der Großteil der Teilnehmenden der aufgelösten Demonstration am Alexanderplatz zog schließlich zum Tagungsort, wo sich gegen 14 Uhr etwa 2.000 Menschen einfanden. Auf dem Weg dorthin formierte sich eine unangemeldete Demonstration. Die Polizei schien hier erneut überfordert und konnte die Menschenansammlungen nur schwer unter Kontrolle bringen. Vor Ort wirkte die Menge etwas unorganisiert. Die mobile Bühne kam erst deutlich verspätet und bis dahin vertrieben sich die „Querdenken“-Anhänger:innen ihre Zeit mit „Wir sind das Volk“ und „Frieden, Freiheit, keine Diktatur“-Rufe. Auch das Umdichten bekannter Popsongs gehörte zum Zeitvertreib, etwa dem Lied „Schrei nach Liebe“ der Berliner Band „Die Ärzte“, die sich erst vor Kurzem gegen die Verschwörungsideolog:innen offen ausgesprochen hatten. Während die Demonstrant:innen in Friedrichshain noch auf genauere Ansagen warteten, versammelten sich zeitgleich einige Kilometer weiter am Brandenburger Tor ebenfalls Anhänger:innen von diffusen Verschwörungsmythen. Bodo Schiffmann war mit seinem Bus gekommen und als Gast trat dort der Rechtsextremist Attila Hildmann auf. Dieser hatte jedoch nichts Neues zu sagen und monierte in bekannter Manier, dass eine „Pharmamafia“ sich gegen das „deutsche Volk“ verschworen habe, um an ihm einen Genozid zu verüben – weiterhin sei Angela Merkel weiterhin Kommunistin und Bill Gates Finanzier und Drahtzieher der vermeintlichen genozidalen Zwangsimpfungen; Demonstration ab Alexanderplatz Gegner der Corona-Maßnahmen verstoßen bei Demo massiv gegen Auflagen. Wegen zahlreicher Verstöße gegen die Masken- und Abstandspflicht hat die Berliner Polizei am Sonntagnachmittag einen Demonstrationszug vom Alexanderplatz Richtung Friedrichshain untersagt. Zahlreiche Demonstranten ließen sich aber nicht aufhalten. Bei einer Demonstration gegen die Corona-Maßnahmen am Sonntag in Berlin haben sich die Teilnehmenden weitgehend nicht an die Auflagen wie Mindestabstand und Maskenpflicht gehalten. Die Polizei untersagte daher einen Aufzug vom Alexanderplatz, wo sich etwa 2.000 Menschen versammelt hatten, nach Friedrichshain. “Dennoch setzten sich mehrere 100 Teilnehmende in verschiedene Richtungen in Bewegung und haben sich nunmehr auf der Karl-Marx-Allee versammelt”, teilte die Polizei mit. Eine Sprecherin beschrieb das Szenario als “bewegliche, dynamische Lage”. 600 Beamte waren den Angaben zufolge im Einsatz. Ein dpa-Reporter berichtete, Demonstranten auf dem Platz seien aus der Menge ausgebrochen. Demonstranten seien abseits des Alexanderplatzes ohne Polizeibegleitung umhergelaufen. rbb24-Recherchereporter Olaf Sundermeyer sagte in der Abendschau auf die Frage, warum die Polizei nicht schneller eingegriffen habe: “Die Polizeistrategie ist darauf ausgelegt, sich defensiv zu verhalten, weil man auch nicht die Bilder einer Eskalation haben will. Der Innensenator hat vor Wochen schon mal gesagt: ‘Ich kann nicht mit Wasserwerfern gegen Leute vorgehen, die keine Maske aufsetzen.’ Und wir erleben jetzt schon seit Wochen, dass die Berliner Polizei mit diesen Protestformen überfordert ist und kein Mittel findet.”

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In ‘Far-Right Ecologism’, European Extremists Pursue Broader Appeal

In rescuing dogs and promoting ‘traditional’ rural life, far-right groups are seeking to encroach on the political mainstream in Europe. Anastasija first came across Levijatan [Leviathan] in 2017 on Facebook. The 23-year-old student from the Serbian capital, Belgrade, had long been interested in environmental protection and ecology, and was drawn to the group’s focus on concrete action to protect defenceless animals from cruelty. “At last someone is actually working on the ground to protect animals,” she recalled thinking. But the burly, tattooed men of Levijatan aren’t your average dog rescuers, as Anastasija eventually found out. “It took me more than a year to discover and understand that Levijatan isn’t quite as caring as it makes out and that behind the protection of animals stands the spread of intolerance of and hatred towards different social groups,” Anastasija, who declined to give her surname, told BIRN. In fact, with more than 220,000 followers on Facebook and roughly 22,600 votes in Serbia’s last parliamentary election in June, Levijatan is the latest offshoot of a Europe-wide phenomenon that has appropriated the fight for animal rights in the service of a far-right political agenda targeting minorities. But while ‘far-right ecologism’ – as PhD candidate Balsa Lubarda of the Central European University, CEU, calls it – can be traced to underground movements of the 1960s and 70s, its newest practitioners are encroaching on the mainstream in countries like Serbia and Hungary, where their discourse frequently dovetails with the policies espoused by increasingly authoritarian and populist governments.
“The whole spectrum of right-wing politics is invariably actually contributing to thinking about the environment, thinking about ecologically sustainable politics and that link is exactly what far-right and right-wing populism is now trying to play on, given the salience of the topic,” Lubarda said in an interview. Via grassroots activism, they seek to influence public policy and infiltrate state structures. Far-right parties with similar interests in the environment are represented in parliaments across Europe. Where Levijatan traces its founding five years ago to the rescue of a tortured pit bull called Grof, the Hungarian organisation Szurkolok az allatokert [Sports Fans for Animals] began with a dog called Fulop. Dogs Grof and Fulop. Photo: Levijatan Movement Foundation and Szurkolók az állatkínzás ellen Facebook pages Both groups reject the label ‘far-right’, but their politics are clear: Levijatan used to share an office with the Serbian Right, a far-right political party, and Levijatan’s leader, Pavle Bihali, is seen in pictures on his social media accounts posing with neo-Nazis. In an emailed response to questions for this story, Bihali said that, on the current Serbian political spectrum, Levijatan is “right of centre” and committed to fighting against “the remains of communism that have brought us to where we are.” Its tactics can be brutal. In mid-October, Serbian police arrested six members of the group on suspicion of attacking a man on a street in Belgrade, the Serbian daily Danas reported. According to prosecutors, the six – identified only by their initials – demanded the victim repeat certain words while they filmed on a mobile phone and, when he refused, they beat him. Two days later, prosecutors say one of the suspects threatened the victim, telling him to apologise on Facebook for his earlier criticism of Levijatan. Szurkolok az allatokert, meanwhile, has received coverage on media outlets close to Hungary’s ruling right-wing Fidesz party and Jobbik, a once virulently anti-Semitic far-right party that has sought in recent years to move closer to the centre. Szurkolok az allatokert, which did not respond to questions for this story, has shared speeches on social media by members of Our Homeland Movement, a far-right offshoot of Jobbik, while the think-tank Political Capital featured the group in its 2017 and 2018 reports on the far-right. Animal rights activism is a shield, said Florian Bieber, director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz in Austria. “It is a very good way of avoiding and deflecting criticism.”

via balkna insight: In ‘Far-Right Ecologism’, European Extremists Pursue Broader Appeal

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Quantifying the Race War in America – #terror #TheBase

Most people see hate filtered through the individual events that reach our daily lives or news feeds – a chance encounter, a video, a story from a friend. But hate rarely emerges at random. There are patterns, sources, and cultures that give rise to hateful trends. When our team at the podcast Sounds Like Hate was approached with a trove of secret recordings from the Base’s vetting room for domestic terrorists in training, our goal was to understand the patterns in this data. You can hear the full story of our investigation by listening to our podcast series. The Base is a terrorist organization that began in 2018 to advance a white supremacist agenda​ ​of the collapse of America, an impending race war, and preparation for ​violence. Each recording contains a vetting call where members of the Base talk to potential recruits over the messaging app Wire. We were faced with the task of analyzing a significant amount of data, 83 hours in total. In this post, we will describe how we applied statistical analysis, data visualization, and machine learning to understand the trends beneath the hate.
To be clear, these vetting calls are not about conversion. The men who apply for membership are already believers. For instance, the men on these secret recordings share an interest in president Trump. His name was brought up 69 times and was mentioned in 18% of all conversations. While they didn’t all agree with him, they all agreed he was serving their agenda. ​“It’s a kind of like we’re climbing a ladder. We hit a rung and we hit another rung on a ladder. And so I think this next election will be just interesting. And depending if Trump wins and if the left, depending on how bad they freak out, how bad they riot and things like that. There’s potential for some, you know, mass kind of lawlessness and things like that.​“ [Speaker 86] The central theme of the Base’s neo-Nazi doctrine is whiteness, both as a race and as a culture. In the recordings, “white” was mentioned more than “Black,” “Jew,” or any other racial/ethnic term combined. The most commonly mentioned phrases including “white” were “white nationalism,” “pro-white,” “white people,” and “white power.” When discussing white people, recruits would frequently extol their perceived virtues of whiteness and bemoan the perceived decline of the white race.

via splcenter: Quantifying the Race War in America

Rechtsextremismus

America of the 1930s saw thousands of people become Nazi

During the 1930s, thousands of Americans sympathized with the Nazis, holding huge rallies. The rallies were organized by the American German Bund, which wanted to spread Nazi ideology.
Nazi supporters also organized summer camps for kids to teach them their values. Having radical fringe groups tearing at the seams of America is not a new phenomenon. Less than a 100 years ago, the Nazis were gathering for big rallies on U.S. soil, running youth camps, their numbers growing by tens of thousands. In the America of the 1930s, pro-Hitler groups like The Friends of New Germany carried out propaganda and intimidation campaigns to disseminate the National Socialist agenda. Their members wore uniforms, consisting of a white shirt and black trousers for men, topped by a black hat with a red symbol. Female attire included a white blouse and a black skirt. In 1936, the Amerikadeutscher Volksbund, or German American Bund, was created as “an organization of patriotic Americans of German stock.” They ran around 20 camps for youth and training, eventually establishing 70 regional divisions around the nation. The ostensible goal of the German American Bund was to represent Americans of German descent but its true objective was to promote the views of Nazi Germany. The Bund played into the growing “America First” stance that sought to keep the U.S. out of World War 2, while amplifying its racist messages. One of the most astonishing events held by the Bund was the “Americanization” rally it held at Madison Square Garden in New York on February 20th, 1939. The event, attended by 20,000 people, consisted of railing against Jewish conspiracies, President Roosevelt and similar sentiment. While speaking, the leader (Bundesführer) of the organization, Fritz Julius Kuhn (a chemical engineer by trade), spewed anti-Semitism, calling the President “Frank D. Rosenfield” while describing his New Deal as a “Jew Deal”. He referred to the U.S government as a whole as “Bolshevik-Jewish” and kept attacking the press and American culture as being run by the Jews. The rally featured a giant banner of George Washington, as the speakers tried to link the event to his birthday and supposed non-interventionist positions. Huge crowds of up to 100,000 people comprising of anti-Nazi protestors also came to make their voices heard at this event, but were held back by 1,700 New York police officers. For chilling footage and more on the Manhattan rally, check out the Academy Award-nominated short documentary film A Night at the Garden:

via bigthink: America of the 1930s saw thousands of people become Nazi

siehe auch: The America of Trump’s Father. One might have been confused about America’s actual loyalties during the brewing years of World War II if they happened to live in the greater New York City region. New York and its suburbs in Long Island and New Jersey had a vibrant community of first- and second-generation German Americans, the latter having included Fred Trump, Sr., a rising star in real estate and retailing.

German American Bund NYWTS.jpg
Von New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer – Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. <a rel=”nofollow” class=”external free” href=”http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c17148″>http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c17148</a>. CALL NUMBER: NYWTS – SUBJ/GEOG–German-American Bund, Gemeinfrei, Link

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Teenage White Supremacist Sentenced to Four Years In Juvenile Detention for Plotting to Kill Black Worshippers at Georgia Church Last Year

A white teenager who admitted to plotting to kill Black churchgoers last year was sentenced to four years in juvenile detention on Thursday. Caitlyn Pye, 17, will also face 10 years of probation upon her release from the Department of Juvenile Justice at the age of 21. Pye, of Gainesville, Georgia, at city of less than 50,000 people about an hour north of Atlanta, was charged with criminal attempt to commit murder after she plotted a deadly attack on worshippers at the city’s Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in November 2019. School resource officers in Gainesville were made aware that Pye had “detailed” written plans to “commit murder” in a notebook. When school officials searched Pye’s bag, they found the notebook, one T-shirt with the phrase “natural selection,” written on it, and another with “Free Dylann Storm Roof” on it, along with swastikas drawn on each sleeve, the Gainesville Times reported. White domestic terrorist Dylann Roof murdered nine Black worshippers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015. The back of one shirt said: “I had to do it because somebody had to do something, because Black people are killing White people every day on the streets. What I did is still miniscule compared to what they’re doing to White people every day. I do consider myself a White supremacist.” The quote nearly mirrors Roof’s statements found in his online manifesto and a journal after the Charleston Massacre. There were also two knives in the bag. Pye visited the church she intended to target several times, but there was no one there. Pye is forbidden from having any contact with any AME church in the state of Georgia, and is required to remain 150 yards away from any other AME church. The sentence also requires that she write an apology letter to the church and attend court-ordered counseling.

via atlantablackstar: Teenage White Supremacist Sentenced to Four Years In Juvenile Detention for Plotting to Kill Black Worshippers at Georgia Church Last Year

siehe auch: MOTIVATED BY HATE ‘White supremacist’ teen girl ‘plotted to butcher Black churchgoers in knife attack’ because ‘she idolized Dylann Roof’. A TEENAGE girl who plotted to butcher Black churchgoers in a knife attack has pleaded guilty, after paraphernalia idolizing gunman Dylann Roof was found in her schoolba. The 17-year-old girl, who remains unidentified, said she planned to attack churchgoers at the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Gainesville, Georgia, with a knife. (…) Prosecutors said that the teenager had written out the plans in her notebook and a search of her bag revealed two knives and T-shirts, one of which read ‘free Dylann Storm Roof’ with swastikas drawn onto the arms, WXIA reported. The shirts also included several writings on their backs, including “I’m not crazy I had to do this,” and, “I do consider myself a white supremacist,” prosecutors said. Roof was 21 years old when he massacred nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, during a prayer service in 2015. The self-proclaimed white supremacist was convicted of murder over the massacre, in which a senior pastor and a state senator were shot dead at a Methodist Episcopal Church. Bishop Reginald Jackson, presiding prelate of the Sixth Episcopal District of the AME Church, told reporters that the girl was inspired by Roof. “Idealizing him and sharing the same ideology, she plotted to accomplish the same at Bethel church in Gainesville,” Jackson said.

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#Geheimakten verraten Nähe zwischen #Lübcke-#Mörder und prominentem #Neonazi – #ThorstenHeise #terror

Unter Verschluss gehaltene Papiere des Verfassungsschutzes zeigen, dass der Neonazi Stephan Ernst und der Rechtsextremist Thorsten Heise immer wieder aufeinandertrafen. Dem hessischen Landtag wird das brisante Material vorenthalten. Der mutmaßliche Lübcke-Mörder Stephan Ernst hatte über ein Jahrzehnt hinweg immer wieder Kontakt zu dem einflussreichen Rechtsextremisten und heutigem NPD-Bundesvizechef Thorsten Heise. Die Beziehung von Ernst und Heise ist in Unterlagen des hessischen Landesamtes für Verfassungsschutz (LfV) dokumentiert, die WELT exklusiv vorliegen. Das geheime Material ist laut der Redaktion Teil der mehr als 56.000 Seiten umfassenden Ermittlungsakte des Generalbundesanwaltes (GBA) zum Mord am Kasseler Regierungspräsidenten Walter Lübcke (CDU). Zu den 240 Bänden hat das LfV Hessen 18 Bände zugeliefert. Sowohl der GBA als auch das für den Fall zuständige Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt/Main weigern sich, das Konvolut einem vom hessischen Landtag eingesetzten Untersuchungsausschuss auszuhändigen. (…) An der Seite des Neonazi-Kaders Heise nahm Ernst auch an einer Winter- und einer Sommersonnenwendfeiern in Hessen und Thüringen teil. Die erste in den Akten erwähnte Zusammenkunft der beiden fand nach Angaben von WELT im April 2001 statt, die letzte im Juni 2011.Mit

via welt: Geheimakten verraten Nähe zwischen Lübcke-Mörder und prominentem Neonazi

siehe auch: Stephan E. soll Kontakt zu NPD-Funktionär gehabt haben. Der Hauptangeklagte im Mordfall Lübcke soll mehrmals den NPD-Bundesvize getroffen haben. Die Begegnungen fanden laut einem Medienbericht zwischen 2001 und 2011 statt. Stephan E., der Hauptangeklagte im Prozess um den Mord an Walter Lübcke, soll immer wieder Kontakt zum stellvertretenden NPD-Bundesvorsitzenden Thorsten Heise gehabt haben. Das berichtete die Welt unter Berufung auf Unterlagen des hessischen Landesamtes für Verfassungsschutz. In den Verfassungsschutzpapieren seien zahlreiche Begegnungen von Stephan E. und Heise beschrieben, berichtete die Welt, darunter bei Stammtischen der NPD in Kassel, bei der Fahrt zu einer Demonstration in Berlin oder bei Winter- und Sommersonnenwendfeiern in Hessen und Thüringen. Die erste in den Akten erwähnte Zusammenkunft der beiden habe im April 2001 stattgefunden, die letzte im Juni 2011.

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